Initiatives call for advanced infrastructure to meet
rising business needs across Asia Pacific
HONG KONG, Dec. 22, 2011
/PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- IBM today announced that it is building a
virtualized infrastructure for one of the leading healthcare providers in Hong
Kong, Quality HealthCare Medical Services (QHMS).
The project involves the
consolidation of more than 100 servers into a cloud environment that hosts
QHMS' mission critical systems that serve over 600 medical centers in Hong Kong
and Macau. The optimized infrastructure will enable QHMS to reduce IT
maintenance and disaster recovery costs, ensure production system
maintainability and performance, and achieve energy-savings.
By reducing the number of
physical servers from over 100 to eight IBM System x servers and centralizing
storage, QHMS can reduce IT operational costs by 25 percent and software
license and related maintenance costs by 23 percent. The new and highly
redundant server infrastructure also includes an automated centralized back-up
system of IBM System Storage DS3500 Express that enables fast, secure and
cost-effective storage management, back up and recovery.
"We are always looking for
ways to further improve the patient experience. Our new cloud allows us to
deliver information to our doctors faster and in a more reliable way,"
said Elaine Chu, Chief Operating Officer of QHMS. "As a result, we will be
able to serve our patients more effectively and with higher levels of care. It
is very exciting to see how we can make a difference to our patients with the
help of technology."
Additionally, the deployment of
the IBM Cognos Business Intelligence solution provides financial key
performance indicator (KPI) and analysis, creating the opportunity to gain more
timely business information for better business performance management and
smarter decision-making.
QHMS aims to monitor business
performance in over 600 medical centers. With IBM Cognos BI, QHMS can build a
standardized and centralized information delivery platform that is scalable and
flexible, and that enables QHMS to monitor the performance of a wide range of
services running on different systems. QHMS' management team can now easily
access timely business information with just a few mouse clicks, speeding
response times to business needs and patient demands. As a result, QHMS can now
focus on analyzing outcomes to drive smarter business decisions instead of
spending time compiling manual reports.
"We are pleased to help
Quality HealthCare build a smarter computing infrastructure to support its
growth strategy," said Savio Ng, Executive, Systems and Technology Group
at IBM China/Hong Kong Limited. "By providing a scalable server and
storage infrastructure, we believe we can help Quality HealthCare drive greater
efficiencies and address its business growth in a dynamic market."
The server consolidation
project was delivered through Microware, which provided system analysis and
infrastructure design consultation services, including consolidation
assessment, network, storage and backup design for the project. The system
migration is expected to be completed by the end of 2011.
"IBM and Microware made
our cloud implementation much easier than it should have been. From the moment
we approached them, they worked closely with us to make our vision for a cloud
into a reality," said Gerhard Zielinski, Chief Information Officer of
QHMS.
About Quality HealthCareQuality
HealthCare Medical Services
Limited is a physician led provider group offering an integrated range of
healthcare services including facilities management, third party plan
administration and paramedical support. The Group provides care for our private
and corporate contract patients through a network of more than 580 Western and Chinese
medical centres, and 47 dental and physiotherapy centres. In 2010, our network
recorded more than 2.8 million healthcare visits. We also operate Hong Kong's
longest-established nursing agency and one of our medical practices has been
serving Hong Kong people for over 140 years.
In 2010, Quality HealthCare
became a member of Fortis Global Healthcare, pan-Asian's largest healthcare
group, with footprints covering over 12 countries in the region. Fortis Global
Healthcare is committed to providing premier patient-centric healthcare across
Asia and Australia, spanning the healthcare spectrum, from hospitals to
diagnostics, primary care, and other healthcare segments.
For more information about
Quality HealthCare, please go to: www.qhms.com
About IBM Cloud Computing
IBM has helped thousands of
clients adopt cloud models and manages millions of cloud based transactions
every day. IBM assists clients in areas as diverse as banking, communications,
healthcare and government to build their own clouds or securely tap into IBM
cloud-based business and infrastructure services. IBM is unique in bringing
together key cloud technologies, deep process knowledge, a broad portfolio of
cloud solutions, and a network of global delivery centers. For more information
about cloud offerings from IBM, visit http://www.ibm.com/smartcloud . Follow us
on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/ibmcloud and on our blog at
http://www.thoughtsoncloud.com .
Media enquiries:Sammie LeeIBM Hong KongTel: (852) 2825 0031Email: sammieky@hk1.ibm.com
Steve TomascoIBM Media
Relations917-687-4588stomasc@us.ibm.com
Julie ChowQuality HealthCare
Medical Services LimitedTel: (852) 2975 2388Email: julie.chow@qhms.com
SOURCE IBM
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